Winter storm was brewing yesterday and kids home from school = hungry kids all day! I prepped veggies and put on two big pots of soup during the early afternoon and let them simmer and bubble away all afternoon. Put a delicious bread recipe in the breadmaker and left the kitchen to do other things. Result for minimal work was a wonderful ham and potato soup as well as a vegetable beef soup. Leftovers were reheated today and as most of the potatoes were gone out of the vegetable beef soup, I added more boiling water and different pasta's I had and made a delicious "new" soup today that was great with grilled cheese sandwiches... cooked on a cast iron skillet of course!



There is lots of soup left that will be lunch tomorrow and I will freeze the rest for later.

Dessert was wonderful... one can of blackberry pie filling poured into the bottom of a 9x9 casseerole dish. Dump one box dry yellow cake mix on top. Top with pats of butter all over the top. Bake at 350 until top is brown and fruit bubbles to the top. I served this right out of the oven with Breyers vanilla ice cream on top. Too good!